The poem 'there's certain slant of light' i personally think is about religion. A lot of her poems have a reference to religion and i think this one is very much that. This is because it talks about the light and heavenly earth and i think Emily Dickinson is referring to death and how you will go to heaven once you die. She starts by saying there's a certain slant of light and to me this is talking about when you die people say you can see the light. Also it talks about 'cathedral tunes' which are usually played at a funeral. She says about no scar so it could be saying that someone close to her dies and she has been hurt but you cannot physically see the hurt in which she feels. Then in the last stanza on the last line she says 'on the look of death' this could be her looking out of her window at a funeral as she lives by a graveyard and Emily Dickinson did like to look at the graveyard a lot. So perhaps she wrote this after a death and seeing a funeral take place and instead of talking about how she felt she put it into a poem.
Georgina Driver.
Georgina Driver.